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KADAMBINI GANGULY ,BRITISH EMPHIRE`S FIRST LADY DOCTOR GRADUATED 1886 DIED 1923 OCTOBER 3

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KADAMBINI GANGULY ,BRITISH EMPHIRE`S  FIRST LADY DOCTOR GRADUATED  1886 DIED 1923 OCTOBER 3 Kadambini Ganguly (Bengali: কাদম্বিনী গাঙ্গুলি) (18 July 1861 – 3 October 1923) and Chandramukhi Basu were the first two female graduates from India and the entire British Empire. She was also the first South Asian female physician, trained in western medicine, to graduate in South Asia. Anandi Gopal Joshi, another Indian, graduated as a physician the same year (1886) in the United States. Early life[edit] The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu, she was born on 18 July 1861 at Bhagalpur, Bihar in British India. The family was from Chandsi, in Barisal which is now in Bangladesh. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School. He and Abhay Charan Mallick started the movement for women's emancipation at Bhagalpur, establishing the women's organisation Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 1863, the first in India. Kadambini started her education at Banga Mahila Vidyal...

KADAMBINI GANGULY ,BRITISH EMPHIRE`S FIRST LADY DOCTOR GRADUATED 1886 DIED 1923 OCTOBER 3

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KADAMBINI GANGULY ,BRITISH EMPHIRE`S  FIRST LADY DOCTOR GRADUATED  1886 DIED 1923 OCTOBER 3 Kadambini Ganguly (Bengali: কাদম্বিনী গাঙ্গুলি) (18 July 1861 – 3 October 1923) and Chandramukhi Basu were the first two female graduates from India and the entire British Empire. She was also the first South Asian female physician, trained in western medicine, to graduate in South Asia. Anandi Gopal Joshi, another Indian, graduated as a physician the same year (1886) in the United States. Early life[edit] The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu, she was born on 18 July 1861 at Bhagalpur, Bihar in British India. The family was from Chandsi, in Barisal which is now in Bangladesh. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School. He and Abhay Charan Mallick started the movement for women's emancipation at Bhagalpur, establishing the women's organisation Bhagalpur Mahila Samiti in 1863, the first in India. Kadambini started her education at Banga Mahila Vidyal...

HOLLYWOOD `S "First Lady of the American Theater", ETHEL BARRYMORE BORN ON 1879 AUGUST 15

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HOLLYWOOD `S  "First Lady of the American Theater",  ETHEL BARRYMORE BORN ON 1879 AUGUST 15 Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.[1][2] Regarded as the  "First Lady of the American Theater",  Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era and her career spanned six decades Early life[edit] Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore (whose real name was Herbert Blythe) and Georgiana Drew.[3] She was named for her father’s favorite character—Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Newcomes. She was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. She was also a granddaughter of actress and theater-manager Louisa Lane Drew, and niece of Broadway matinée idol John Dre...